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A news reports that Trump decided not to fire his National Security Advisor over the Signal Fuck-up because he had fired Michael Flynn, his first Security Advisor, right at the start of his first administration…
…and he did not want to feed the narrative that he promotes ‘chaos’
That’s really funny !!
Anyway…that narrative would be promoted by the fact the he fired more top
officials during his first Presidency that any other President in American history
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A school in Dagenham confirms it will be closing its doors (at very short notice) so that staff may celebrate Eid. The country most of us grew up in is fast disappearing.
Necro-post! Steven Pinker has quite persuasively argued that violence was much worse in the past. See TED video here.
Pinker: Today we are probably living in the most peaceful time in our species existence. Josh from a few posts above is right, a return to forager values will be a return of barbarism and increased violence.